Although the 2026 racing calendar has already been underway for more than a month, some riders continue to search for, and in some cases find, a team to avoid spending the season on the sidelines. This is the case, most recently, of Riccardo Lucca, who in recent hours officially became a new member of the Quick Pro Team, signing a contract with the Estonian team until the end of the season.

The twenty-nine-year-old climber from Rovereto (admired in 2023 and 2024 in Bardiani colors) will therefore defend the cause of a third-division world team for the second consecutive year, having worn the jersey of the Karcag Cycling ÉPKAR Team last year, a Hungarian Continental team with which, among his best results, he won the climber's jersey at the Tour of Szeklerland (a 2.2 race he finished fifth overall), finished sixth in both the Italian Gravel Championship and the second stage of the Turul Romaniei, and achieved top-ten finishes at the Sibiu Cycling Tour (seventh in the second stage), the Visegrad 4 Kerekparverseny (ninth), and the Visegrad 4 Bicycle Race-GP Slovakia (second).

For him, winner of the Trofeo Alcide Degasperi 2021, the third stage of the Giro della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2022, and a stage at the Adriatica Ionica Race of the same year (his only professional victory to date), his career continues by moving even further east, joining a team flying the Estonian flag that, having strong ties with Mongolia (the country where the license was registered until 2024) and neighboring countries, has been active mainly in Asia in recent years. Here, between 2024 and 2025, Quick Pro Team achieved a total of 23 victories (five of which in .Pro races), standing out especially thanks to the winning sprints of former BORA hansgrohe and Astana rider Martin Laas, who has 20 personal wins.

This year the team has decided to open its doors even wider to international riders, not limiting itself to signing only athletes from Estonia, Mongolia, and China, but including in its roster riders with Thai (Ariya Phounsavath), Cypriot (Andreas Militadis), Vietnamese (Lê Xuân Lộc Phạm), Spanish (David Delgado, announced alongside Lucca), and Italian passports. In this way, the young Estonian team has created what is, in all respects, the most multicultural roster in its brief history, and it is precisely in this varied and stimulating environment that Lucca will try to carve out his own space, showcasing those climbing abilities that, just four years ago, allowed him to excel on the Zoncolan ahead of riders like Busatto, Buratti, Verstrynge, and Toneatti.